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A Few Fast Facts about the Park Hill Condominiums in San Francisco:

1. Park Hill’s buildings were once  a hospital and convent built by Orthodox nuns. The project is now on the state’s registry of historic buildings.

2. The original architects were Baker and Bidwell. Between them they also designed Coit Tower, the San Francisco Art Institute on Russian Hill and Temple Emmanuel at the edge of Presidio Heights.

3. A third building on the property is a chapel which has been left largely intact. It’s worth a visit just to see the rose window.

4. Converted to condos in 1986, most of the units are one-bedrooms. Some two bedrooms sit either end of the hospital building with dramatic views, and there are a handful of small loft units at the site’s southwest corner.  

5. The convent building appears briefly in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, as the sanitorium where Scottie (played by Jimmy Stewart ) recuperates from his nervous breakdown

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